Setting up a Billing Alarm
Learn how to set up a billing alarm to warn us if our bill exceeds a certain threshold.
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In this lesson, we’re going to create a billing alarm to get a notification when you are expected to reach or have reached a certain threshold. We will set a dollar value like five or ten dollars, and if we reach or are expected to reach that amount, we will get an email alert to let us know.
If you follow the instructions given in this course, you’ll be terminating your instances and the leasing objects — which might otherwise cost you money — to make sure that you stay within the free tier. You should also read up on what’s included in the free tier and make sure you’re aware of what you should do to make sure you don’t get any bills. But just in case, we’re going to set up the billing alarm.
You need to log in to the root account to do this because only the root account has access to modifying billing information.
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You can hit the RUN button below to open up a browser right here. This will make following along easier.
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That’s all we need to do. We’ll now get free tier usage alerts and also alerts that inform us when our account balance is going to exceed 10 dollars.
Modifying the Sign-in Link
Activate MFA on the Root Account